for goodness sake, that s why he didn t disclose it in an open hearing. your own memo says minimally corroborated, so there s at least some corroboration there. it was about russia and the person they were looking at was carter page. they got the name right, and they got the country right. so there were some things that were probably accurate in the dossier. they got the fact that russia meddled in the u.s. election right and that may be the most important thing. i do want to move on to this other key point. it states that deputy director andrew mccabe testified before the committee on december 2017 but no surveillance warrant would have been sought from fisa without the steele dossier information. sought and information there. yeah. did andy mccabe said there would have been no warrant without the dossier? look, everyone knows the dossier was the basis for getting the warrant. andrew mccabe said but for the dossier, we wouldn t have got the warrant. that s what the memo po
individual. were you in the room when andy mccabe testified before the committee? yes, i was. and i found him credible. and how they have characterized his testimony is wrong. and again that would come to light if our memo were reloesed. did he tell your committee that no warrant would have been sought without the steele dossier information? he did not say that. i can t say more without the memo being released. and also what s telling again, they didn t quote andy mccabe. in the possession they have mccabe s testimony. from his transcript. why didn t they quote him word for word? that is it very telling about what they re trying to do. you can t tell me word for word what he said? but saying he didn t say it was the only thing yoused. he didn t say that. that s false. i wish i could. they voted to muzzle me. and to prevent the public from seeing it. would it be illegal in any
oversight or calling that transparency is a ruse. the truth is in the underlying documents, and evidence that are part of the fisa warrant application, but that is all classified and the memo raises serious questions about the extent to which the steele dossier was used to get a warrant to spy on carter page who by then had left the trump campaign, but the memo is leaving more unanswered of what is in the fisa application, and why is a secret court judge reauthorized a wiretap three different times. and joining us now u is cnn legal analyst carrie cordero, assistant koun stole the u.s. attorney general, and also from the hill newspaper caroline parns. and so what does this memo mean for you?
fbi director andrew mccabe testified before the house intelligence committee in november of 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisa court without the steele dossier information and except that we have not seen the transcripts of the testimony and not everybody who was at that hearing agrees. listening to the ranking d democrat on the house intel committee who was in the room for mccabe s testimony. what it ended up delivering is criticism of a single fisa application involving carter page and the renewals that cherry picks information that does not tell the reader the whole of the application, and as the d.o.j. and fbi have said deeply misleading and you can cherry pick any fisa court application or fbi application and do the same thing. and joining us now is congressman who supported the memo release, and thank you for
sa same thing. all right. your response? yes, just simply not true. and time will show that it s not true. we look forward to the democratic response to this. we look forward to the fbi response. i hope the fbi does respond. i hope we can declassify and show more and more of this information. when we do, just like a couple days ago when we talked we said let s let the memo be judged on its own merit. let the memo and the democratic response to be judged on its own merits. everything in the memo is accurate and true. so one of the things that democrats are saying is that this statement is misleading. that deputy director andy mccabe testified before your committee in december 2016 no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisa court without the steele dossier information. is that what he snad. yeah.